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Now, Mark Kermode give his verdicts on the latest releases in the Film | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Welcome to the film review on BBC News. We take us through this | :00:00. | :00:29. | |
week's cinema releases. What do we have? A mixed bag. 20,000 days on | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
earth, a kind of fictionalised portrait of a day in the life of | :00:35. | :00:36. | |
Nick Cave. The right club, based on the stage | :00:37. | :00:46. | |
play, Posh. And the latest from Woody Allen. Magic in the moonlight. | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
Nick Cave. RU a fan? Ish. Will I be, once I have seen this film? | :00:52. | :01:05. | |
This is something you can enjoy as a piece of cinema. This is a | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
fictionalised documentary. He's been honoured with 20,000 days, mid`50s | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
rock star. It takes the form of a day in the life of Nick Cave. You | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
see him driving around the streets of Brighton, his adopted home, we | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
see him having lunch with Warren Ellis, and we see him having | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
conversations with people like Ray Winstone. And we see him going | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
through an archive of his past and ruminating on what it meant. Here is | :01:31. | :01:38. | |
a clip. That's me and Kylie, wearing shorts there. What happened with | :01:39. | :01:45. | |
Kylie? I wrote this song and I wanted her to sing on it and we were | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
just trying to find out how to get to Kylie, and she had management | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
that was very protective of her and her image in all of that sort of | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
thing. But she happened to be going out with Michael Hutchence. We | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
managed to get hold of Michael, and she was sitting next to him when we | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
rang, and we said, can Kylie come in and sing a song for us? We ended up | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
on top of the Pops. That whole event around Kylie kind of lives in this | :02:13. | :02:21. | |
weird bubble. Where life, for that brief time, was kind of different | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
because we were suddenly thrown into this weird situation of having a hit | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
record and then, obviously, people bought the album and listen to it. | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
And then they realised that that would be the last time they would | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
have anything to do with Nick Cave and the bad seeds. `` Bad Seeds. But | :02:38. | :02:47. | |
for me, it was a big moment in time. That is one of the most | :02:48. | :02:49. | |
straightforward moments, the rest of it is a lot more out of this. There | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
is more Thera `` theatre. `` a lot more artifice. There are strange | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
conversations with Kylie Minogue and Ray Winstone and it's like a | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
performance piece. You get the idea with rock documentaries of them | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
lifting the veil and showing you the real person, but what this does is | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
through theatre and artifice, and it is a piece of film`making, | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
fictionalised documentary, it gets oddly closer to the truth in the way | :03:18. | :03:25. | |
that a fictional film might be, like Performance, told us more about Mick | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
Jagger, or the man who fell to Earth told us more about David Bowie. It | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
is more about the creation of his art. He talks about the fact that | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
through his screenplays and novels he has created an alternative world | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
in which she believes in the forces of good and evil, and the | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
documentary has a similar take on the reality of his life. It's also a | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
film about Brighton. If you saw the film about the Man whose mind | :03:49. | :03:55. | |
exploded, this film has a lot in common with that. It's about the | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
idea of Brighton and the idea of somebody creating art which is a lot | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
to do with memory within the landscape. None of it is to be taken | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
at face value. It is all a performance. But that is kind of | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
what you want from a performer like Nick Cave. I was going to ask | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
whether there was a balance between what it reveals and what it | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
conceals? It reveals what it does reveal by concealing. The whole | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
thing that makes Nick Cave interesting is his art and the | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
artifice. The documentary seems happy with that. It taxi quite funny | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
and beautiful to look at. `` it is actually quite funny. It's a very | :04:34. | :04:35. | |
interesting film and you don't have to be a fan of Nick Cave to get that | :04:36. | :04:43. | |
out of it. That is that one. The Riot Club has been adapted from the | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
stage play, and it's the story of Oxford tops to their great | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
resemblance to the Burlington club, and they get together, they are | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
massively overprivileged, and they go into a room above a pub and they | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
have a meal and they behave appallingly. The film is a satire on | :05:00. | :05:06. | |
privilege and is a satire on that whole slightly archaic idea of | :05:07. | :05:08. | |
overprivileged toffs behaving terribly. The stage play was an | :05:09. | :05:18. | |
incendiary experience, but this suffers from not knowing how nasty | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
to make the characters. You have to have a really good reason for asking | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
to spend 90 minutes in the company of people this obnoxious, so where | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
is the satire? The famous thing about the Bullingdon Club is that | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
many politicians came out of it, and many have done very well for | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
themselves, and the film does definitely portray these characters | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
as pretty loathsome, but it also wants you to kind of sympathise with | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
the new incumbent. It sort of gets lost in not knowing quite how nasty | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
to be. That said, the performances are good and there is a scene | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
stealing cameo by Tom Hollander who is terrific as the ex`club member | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
who is now an MP, who seems terribly familiar. I am guessing we have to | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
pick the clip carefully. Yes, I think so. It is rich kids behaving | :06:07. | :06:13. | |
badly. Woody Allen, Colin Firth, what's wrong to light `` not to | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
like? Woody Allen always said he loved conjuring acts as a kid and | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
he's dealt with magic in the work before. It's the 1920s, south of | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
France, Colin Firth is a magician on stage and has this character who is | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
a sceptic but does not relate `` believe in magic in the real world | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
and he is called upon by a friend to divide `` debunker clairvoyant who, | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
we are told is actually in touch with the other side for real. There | :06:40. | :06:46. | |
is a clip. `` here is a clip. Good evening. I understand you are | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
holding a seance tonight. She's been waiting for the right moment and now | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
she says the planets are in alignment. Why do they have to be in | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
alignment and what with? Your vertebrae? You cannot do the seance | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
if someone in the room is a nonbeliever. When you contact the | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
spirits, will we be able to see the souls, and how are they different | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
from ghosts? Or are they ghost? I should think souls are different. | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
Have you ever heard of ectoplasm? Isn't that a bit like yoghurt? You | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
are a joker. So it looks like yoghurt but it will actually be her | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
former husband. The funny thing about this is that is that it is a | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
sweet film, lots of chuckles if not belly laughs, and it feels a bit | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
lightweight compared to Blue Jasmine. I don't mind that about it | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
and it looks beautiful, and you saw it coming out with the Sony lenses. | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
It looks like an old movie, and Colin Firth does that brittle, | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
difficult character very well. The problem, if there is one, is you | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
won't remember it for very long. We will see it, like it whilst it's | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
there, but once it has gone, it is gone. It's like a magic trick, it | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
makes itself disappear. Occasionally plonks around like a stage magician | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
doing something contrived. But it is sweet natured, I smiled, I love the | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
couple times and Wally Alan's rate of output is so extraordinary, filmy | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
year, every year, they can't be classics `` Woody Allen's rate of | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
Albert. It's a nice stopgap. `` rate of output. I saw an underwhelming | :08:26. | :08:34. | |
tag line, a piece of love. What is the best film out there at the | :08:35. | :08:40. | |
moment? Pride is the best film. You can also see one of the actors in | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
The Riot Club. It's a terrific story about lesbian and gay men supporting | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
the miners, based on a true story. It's uplifting and I'm politically | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
inclined to like it anyway. The 1980s as a special time and all | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
that, but it's funny, it's smart, its sharp, it's political, it's | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
sensitive. You laugh, you cry, and it's terrific. I would encourage | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
everybody to see it, whatever your political persuasion. Telling a | :09:09. | :09:11. | |
story that might surprise as well. Anyone under the age of 20, go and | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
see it, and they find this stuff out the first, which is great. That's | :09:18. | :09:24. | |
the best film. What about DVDs? This is shaping up as my favourite of the | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
year. Frank, inspired by the legend Frank Sidebottom, but also captained | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
the heart and Daniel Johnson. `` Captain beef heart. It is a one`off | :09:36. | :09:44. | |
musical bio pic, like 20,000 Days on Earth does, some things are true, | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
some things are fictional, and it creates something special. For me, | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
Frank is a standout. Michael Fassbender spends the whole film | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
almost with the Frank Sidebottom head covering his features and never | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
once do you think you need to see his head. It's an extraordinary | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
piece of work. Good stuff. Thank you, Mark. A quick reminder that you | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
can go and find more film news and reviews from across the BBC online, | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
including all the preview shows. That is it for this week. So thanks | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
very much for watching. Goodbye. | :10:22. | :10:24. |